Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 10:43:18 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: heintze AT usa DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gcc260rm.zip -- what is it?

> I unpacked gcc260rm.zip thinking it was version 2.6.0 of GNU C/C++.
> It appears that this is not the case at all. This
>  is a new driver program with source?  Why is there no description of
> what this is?  Why is it in a separate utils directory.  Is it
> terribly significant that it is real mode? Perhaps this makes it
> faster?

It is just the gcc.exe driver from gcc 2.6.0, compiled with TCC
instead of gcc.  Using this has some advantages and some
disadvantages, usually relating to performance.

Personally, I use the gcc in gcc260bn.zip.